Received my contributor’s copy of Suffering the Other, and no surprise: it’s a work of art.
Sam Cowan (co-editor) and Justin Steele (lead editor) have collaborated to bring a genuine piece of literary activism into existence. The proceeds from each copy sold are extended to two nonprofits: The National Immigration Project and the Transgender Law Center.
My story, “January Sick,” is sidled alongside a rather vicious roster of writers.
The recently-released anthology, Male Pattern Violence (CultureCult Press, 2026), contains my story, “The Gyrification of Violence.” Edited by the press’s founder, Jay Chakravarti, the story is a reprint-inclusion originally appearing in Vastarien: A Literary Journal (lamentably on indefinite hiatus, but hopefully in some dark hibernation).
Male Pattern Violence houses thirty-five stories from an eclectic selection of contributors. “From the housing projects of France to the fishing villages of Bangladesh, from Victorian England to the digital wastelands of social media moderation, Male Pattern Violence traces the architecture of male violence: not as aberrations, but as a pattern, perpetuated consciously or otherwise, since time immemorial.”
As for my own offering, the editor’s intro follows: “A single punch in a middle-school hallway, then decades of aftershocks. [Clint] Smith dissects male violence not as spectacle, but as a wound that never heals.”
